Hi, I have been trying to use Chandler as my PIM for a while now but it is very difficult. It is very slow and uses way too many resources. Here on my Crunchbang Linux OS it takes ~130MB! Also, the responsiveness of the interface is poor. Now, this is a resource constrained system (512MB RAM, 2GB swap, and a 1.8GHz Athlon processor), but I have also tried it on a 1.6GHz Core2Duo processor with 2GB RAM running Windows with slightly better results but still not good.
I like the idea that you have but the product could be so much better. Integration with on-line services could be much better, I mean even Mozilla Lightning can inter-operate with read and write to Google Calendar. Another feature that would be nice is to be able to set multiple alarms and types of alarms. For example I would like to have an option to send an email reminder in addition to just a pop-up, since I can't have Chandler running 24/7 and it doesn't run on my cell phone. I realize that some of these issues are due to limitations in your chosen development language. As much as I would like to see it, I don't think you are going to be a very big commercial success with the current limitations of the program. I also don't think having an interpreted language is going to be a selling point if you ever decided to make a run at gaining traction in the Enterprise. I do hope I am wrong. Anyway, I wish you the best of luck with the continued development of Chandler. Thank you. Jeffrey C. Johnson _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list unsubscribe here: http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-users Chandler wiki: http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
